About a year ago today, Learning Technologies Group purchased Rustici Software outright, and invested in the simultaneously spun off Watershed. I can happily say a year later that I’m actually glad we sold the company. It’s true, if we were selling today, based on the…
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We kicked off a new event here last week that we're calling Family Meal. Around here, we place a premium on intentional time together. We feel it’s important and it matters. In an effort to mix things up and continue to evolve culturally as a…
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The parallels between television and elearning are abundant. I mean, who doesn’t love sitting down on a Friday night to watch the best elearning they couldn’t get to all week? Really, though, there are plenty of legitimate parallels, and one of the things I like…
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Back in January, Mike and I sold Rustici Software to a British company called LTG. One thing I “learned” in that process is that recurring revenue is very valuable to a company (or its owners). As a business, we sell several products on term licenses,…
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I can’t think of a single LMS that handles language support elegantly. Yes, many of them have a setting whereby a person who speaks another language can reconfigure the interface to reflect their preferred language. But very few LMSs allow a learner to switch the…
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We see two distinct ways to innovate learning standards. One is to push the community forward by developing and evangelizing emerging standards. We do this all the time. The other is to create and deploy new approaches around existing standards. Our SCORM Engine powers content…
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Welcome to week one of the post-acquisition Rustici Software world. I just thought I’d take a moment here to discuss one of the reasons we agreed to sell Rustici Software to LTG, because it’s not all about the money. Mike and I were seeking investment…
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Today, I want to share a piece of news that’s really exciting for us. As of this morning, Rustici Software has been acquired by Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), a publicly listed learning technologies agency made up of specialist digital learning businesses. As a part…
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“When we were looking out for partners to validate content created with Adobe Captivate, Rustici Software was the automatic choice. With the SCORM Cloud now integrated within Adobe Captivate 9, our users can now validate their eLearning content easily” -Akshay Bharadwaj -Senior Product Manager –…
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Update for May 12th, 2016: We are continuing to observe the situation. The European Commission has released details of the new Privacy Shield Framework designed to heighten protections for transferring European Union residents’ personal data to the U.S. Procedural barriers still inhibit its approval, but…
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On August 13th, 2015, we launched a heavily revised version of tincanapi.com. Andrew Downes has been working away, as he does, creating new content. Rather than direct it all at the blog, though, he’s been rethinking and restructuring the core site and sharing his insights…
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A few months ago, we sent out a survey to ask customers to tell us more about how they use SCORM Cloud and what other features they'd like to see. One request we heard from the survey and other conversations with Cloud customers is the…
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